Paused workouts, recruiting talk and schedule guessing
The Michigan Insider
247Sports, Michigan Football, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan, Michigan athletics, College Football
4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In a roundabout episode, we discuss Michigan's paused workouts, the football team's recruiting and take a stab at figuring out what the Wolverines' 2020 football schedule may look like.
We open by discussing Michigan Athletics' decision to pause voluntary workouts for its ice hockey, field hockey, volleyball and swim and dive teams. We touch on how volatile everything can be in the case of an outbreak, how Michigan is handling it and why the decision should not be binding for the football team, among other topics.
We also discuss football recruiting, looking at the Wolverines' more aggressive approach toward the 2021 and 2022 classes, Giles Jackson's recruiting impact, the difference a quarterback recruit can make and Michigan's unenviable task of trying to close the gap against Ohio State.
We close with speculative talk on the Wolverines' schedule and what it may look like in 2020, in addition to discussing the Wolverines' lack of names in 247Sports' ranking of college football's top 50 players.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. |
| 0:05.5 | I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz here with me. I'm going to be a bit of a Q&A, maybe not mailbag type, but just kind of discussing different questions you guys have, different discussion points that have arisen over on the message board, things that we've written about in the past week. |
| 0:22.4 | So a bit of a late July, you know, kind of around the horn deal. |
| 0:28.0 | So we can jump right into the questions in this one. |
| 0:31.8 | We should probably start with this one because it's the most relevant in terms of news, |
| 0:36.8 | specifically. |
| 0:37.9 | Brian Hall asked, how has football workouts been going? |
| 0:40.9 | I'm curious to know after the university suspended other teams' workouts yesterday. |
| 0:46.2 | So if you missed the news, the Michigan Athletic Department announced that they were |
| 0:50.8 | suspending workouts for a week in ice hockey, volleyball, |
| 0:56.6 | field hockey, and swimming and diving. They didn't specify why. Well, they did specify a little |
| 1:02.9 | bit why, but they didn't get too specific, but they said it was related to positive COVID-19 tests |
| 1:08.3 | in addition to contact tracing. And so, and football, you know, |
| 1:14.7 | I know Michigan spokesperson said things are going on as scheduled. Steve, I don't know if you've |
| 1:20.4 | heard additional insights on on how football workouts have been going, but my understanding is that |
| 1:25.8 | they have been pretty close to that bubble |
| 1:30.0 | type atmosphere that I know is working for other sports I don't think I've heard players are very |
| 1:36.9 | well you know they're treating it like their careers are involved here you know they're they're |
| 1:42.0 | treating it like hey if I'm going to parties or getting |
| 1:46.1 | COVID or whatever, you know, we might not have a season, we might not be able to practice and |
| 1:51.0 | continue to have a successful season, and it might impact my draft stock or might impact what I |
| 1:56.1 | can accomplish at Michigan. So in terms of football, I've, obviously things can change very quickly, but the |
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